Rachel Rutishauser, MD, PhD

Assoc Professor In Residence

I am an infectious disease-trained Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Experimental Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. My laboratory focuses on understanding the mechanisms that promote the formation of effective and durable CD8+ T cell immunity to viral pathogens (e.g., HIV, SARS-CoV-2) and vaccination at different stages of human development.

Education
Fellowship, 2018 - Infectious Disease, University of California, San Francisco
Residency, 2014 - Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
M.D., 2011 - School of Medicine, Yale University
Ph.D., 2010 - Immunobiology, Yale University
B.A., 2003 - Biology, Harvard University
Honors and Awards
  • CROI New Investigator Scholarship, CROI, 2019
  • CROI New Investigator Scholarship, CROI, 2018
  • HVTN Translational Early Stage Investigator Conference Travel Award, HVTN, 2018
  • HVTN Translational Early Stage Investigator Conference Travel Award, HVTN, 2017
  • CFAR Early Career Award for Excellence in Basic Research, UCSF, 2017
  • AIDS Research Institute Clinical Fellow, UCSF, 2016
  • IDWeek Trainee Travel Award, IDSA, 2015
  • SFGH Department of Medicine Clinical Fellow Award, UCSF, 2015
  • UCSF Infectious Diseases Division Clinical Fellow Award, UCSF, 2015
  • Norma Bailey Berniker Prize, Yale University, 2011
  • The MD/PhD Award, Yale University, 2011
Websites
Publications

  1. Maciel M, Amara RR, Bar KJ, Crotty S, Deeks SG, Duplessis C, Gaiha G, McElrath MJ, McMichael A, Palin A, Rutishauser R, Shapiro S, Smiley ST, D'Souza MP. Author Correction: Exploring synergies between B- and T-cell vaccine approaches to optimize immune responses against HIV-workshop report. NPJ vaccines 2024. PMID: 38485736


  2. Maciel M, Amara RR, Bar KJ, Crotty S, Deeks SG, Duplessis C, Gaiha G, McElrath MJ, McMichael A, Palin A, Rutishauser R, Shapiro S, Smiley ST, D'Souza MP. Exploring synergies between B- and T-cell vaccine approaches to optimize immune responses against HIV-workshop report. NPJ vaccines 2024. PMID: 38383616


  3. Borgo GM, Rutishauser RL. Generating and measuring effective vaccine-elicited HIV-specific CD8+ T cell responses. Current opinion in HIV and AIDS 2023. PMID: 37751362


  4. K. Chew, D. Glidden, R. Fromentin, J. Jacobs, G. Laird, N. Chomont, J. Mellors, D. Weiner, S. Deeks, R. Rutishauser. PP 8.3 – 00049 Reduction in Markers of HIV Persistence with Gag/Pol/Il-12 DNA Therapeutic Vaccination. Journal of virus eradication 2022. PMID:


  5. Anthony-Gonda K, Ray A, Su H, Wang Y, Xiong Y, Lee D, Block A, Chilunda V, Weiselberg J, Zemelko L, Wang YY, Kleinsorge-Block S, Reese JS, de Lima M, Ochsenbauer C, Kappes JC, Dimitrov DS, Orentas R, Deeks SG, Rutishauser RL, Berman JW, Goldstein H, Dropulic B. In vivo killing of primary HIV-infected cells by peripheral-injected early memory-enriched anti-HIV duoCAR T cells. JCI insight 2022. PMID: 36345941


  6. Peluso MJ, Spinelli MA, Deveau TM, Forman CA, Munter SE, Mathur S, Tang AF, Lu S, Goldberg SA, Arreguin MI, Hoh R, Tai V, Chen JY, Martinez EO, Yee BC, Chenna A, Winslow JW, Petropoulos CJ, Sette A, Weiskopf D, Kumar N, Lynch KL, Hunt PW, Durstenfeld MS, Hsue PY, Kelly JD, Martin JN, Glidden DV, Gandhi M, Deeks SG, Rutishauser RL, Henrich TJ. Post-acute sequelae and adaptive immune responses in people living with HIV recovering from SARS-COV-2 infection. AIDS (London, England) 2022. PMID: 35866847


  7. Rutishauser RL, Trautmann L. CD8+ T-cell responses in HIV controllers: potential implications for novel HIV remission strategies. Current opinion in HIV and AIDS 2022. PMID: 35777930


  8. McCarthy EE, Odorizzi PM, Lutz E, Smullin CP, Tenvooren I, Stone M, Simmons G, Hunt PW, Feeney ME, Norris PJ, Busch MP, Spitzer MH, Rutishauser RL. A cytotoxic-skewed immune set point predicts low neutralizing antibody levels after Zika virus infection. 2022. PMID: 35584677


  9. Adolfo B Frias, Rachel L Rutishauser, Ashish Arunkumar Sharma, Tian Mi, Hossam Aly Abdelsamed, Caitlin Zebley, Christian M Constantz, Mars Stone, Michael Busch, Steven Deeks, Rafick Sekaly, Ben A Youngblood. HIV-specific CD8 T cells from elite controllers have an epigenetic imprint that preserves effector functions. The Journal of Immunology 2022. PMID:


  10. Spottiswoode N, Bloomstein JD, Caldera S, Sessolo A, McCauley K, Byanyima P, Zawedde J, Kalantar K, Kaswabuli S, Rutishauser RL, Lieng MK, Davis JL, Moore J, Jan A, Iwai S, Shenoy M, Sanyu I, DeRisi JL, Lynch SV, Worodria W, Huang L, Langelier CR. Pneumonia surveillance with culture-independent metatranscriptomics in HIV-positive adults in Uganda: a cross-sectional study. 2022. PMID: 35544096


  11. Peluso MJ, Kelly JD, Lu S, Goldberg SA, Davidson MC, Mathur S, Durstenfeld MS, Spinelli MA, Hoh R, Tai V, Fehrman EA, Torres L, Hernandez Y, Williams MC, Arreguin MI, Ngo LH, Deswal M, Munter SE, Martinez EO, Anglin KA, Romero MD, Tavs J, Rugart PR, Chen JY, Sans HM, Murray VW, Ellis PK, Donohue KC, Massachi JA, Weiss JO, Mehdi I, Pineda-Ramirez J, Tang AF, Wenger MA, Assenzio MT, Yuan Y, Krone MR, Rutishauser RL, Rodriguez-Barraquer I, Greenhouse B, Sauceda JA, Gandhi M, Scheffler AW, Hsue PY, Henrich TJ, Deeks SG, Martin JN. Persistence, Magnitude, and Patterns of Postacute Symptoms and Quality of Life Following Onset of SARS-CoV-2 Infection: Cohort Description and Approaches for Measurement. 2021. PMID: 35106317


  12. Rasmussen TA, Rajdev L, Rhodes A, Dantanarayana A, Tennakoon S, Chea S, Spelman T, Lensing S, Rutishauser R, Bakkour S, Busch M, Siliciano JD, Siliciano RF, Einstein MH, Dittmer DP, Chiao E, Deeks S, Durand C, Lewin SR. Impact of anti-PD-1 and anti-CTLA-4 on the HIV reservoir in people living with HIV with cancer on antiretroviral therapy: The AIDS Malignancy Consortium-095 study. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2021. PMID: 33677480


  13. Peluso MJ, Deitchman AN, Torres L, Iyer NS, Munter SE, Nixon CC, Donatelli J, Thanh C, Takahashi S, Hakim J, Turcios K, Janson O, Hoh R, Tai V, Hernandez Y, Fehrman EA, Spinelli MA, Gandhi M, Trinh L, Wrin T, Petropoulos CJ, Aweeka FT, Rodriguez-Barraquer I, Kelly JD, Martin JN, Deeks SG, Greenhouse B, Rutishauser RL, Henrich TJ. Long-term SARS-CoV-2-specific immune and inflammatory responses in individuals recovering from COVID-19 with and without post-acute symptoms. Cell reports 2021. PMID: 34358460


  14. Peluso MJ, Dee L, Taylor J, Campbell DM, Ehm A, Agosto-Rosario M, Shao S, Williams MC, Hoh R, Rutishauser RL, Deeks SG, Sauceda JA, Dubé K. SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination in the Context of Ongoing HIV Cure-Related Research Studies. Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 2021. PMID: 33852502


  15. Peluso MJ, Takahashi S, Hakim J, Kelly JD, Torres L, Iyer NS, Turcios K, Janson O, Munter SE, Thanh C, Donatelli J, Nixon CC, Hoh R, Tai V, Fehrman EA, Hernandez Y, Spinelli MA, Gandhi M, Palafox MA, Vallari A, Rodgers MA, Prostko J, Hackett J, Trinh L, Wrin T, Petropoulos CJ, Chiu CY, Norris PJ, DiGermanio C, Stone M, Busch MP, Elledge SK, Zhou XX, Wells JA, Shu A, Kurtz TW, Pak JE, Wu W, Burbelo PD, Cohen JI, Rutishauser RL, Martin JN, Deeks SG, Henrich TJ, Rodriguez-Barraquer I, Greenhouse B. SARS-CoV-2 antibody magnitude and detectability are driven by disease severity, timing, and assay. Science advances 2021. PMID: 34330709


  16. Peluso MJ, Munter SE, Lynch KL, Yun C, Torres L, Iyer NS, Donatelli J, Ryan L, Deitchman AN, Deeks SG, Rutishauser RL, Henrich TJ. Discordant Virus-Specific Antibody Levels, Antibody Neutralization Capacity, and T-cell Responses Following 3 Doses of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination in a Patient With Connective Tissue Disease. Open forum infectious diseases 2021. PMID: 34395717


  17. Peluso MJ, Kelly JD, Lu S, Goldberg SA, Davidson MC, Mathur S, Durstenfeld MS, Spinelli MA, Hoh R, Tai V, Fehrman EA, Torres L, Hernandez Y, Williams MC, Arreguin MI, Bautista JA, Ngo LH, Deswal M, Munter SE, Martinez EO, Anglin KA, Romero MD, Tavs J, Rugart PR, Chen JY, Sans HM, Murray VW, Ellis PK, Donohue KC, Massachi JA, Weiss JO, Mehdi I, Pineda-Ramirez J, Tang AF, Wenger M, Assenzio M, Yuan Y, Krone M, Rutishauser RL, Rodriguez-Barraquer I, Greenhouse B, Sauceda JA, Gandhi M, Hsue PY, Henrich TJ, Deeks SG, Martin JN. Rapid implementation of a cohort for the study of post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection/COVID-19. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2021. PMID: 33758895


  18. Peluso MJ, Deitchman AN, Torres L, Iyer NS, Nixon CC, Munter SE, Donatelli J, Thanh C, Takahashi S, Hakim J, Turcios K, Janson O, Hoh R, Tai V, Hernandez Y, Fehrman E, Spinelli MA, Gandhi M, Trinh L, Wrin T, Petropoulos CJ, Aweeka FT, Rodriguez-Barraquer I, Kelly JD, Martin JN, Deeks SG, Greenhouse B, Rutishauser RL, Henrich TJ. Long-Term SARS-CoV-2-Specific Immune and Inflammatory Responses Across a Clinically Diverse Cohort of Individuals Recovering from COVID-19. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2021. PMID: 33688685


  19. Sun B, Tang N, Peluso MJ, Iyer NS, Torres L, Donatelli JL, Munter SE, Nixon CC, Rutishauser RL, Rodriguez-Barraquer I, Greenhouse B, Kelly JD, Martin JN, Deeks SG, Henrich TJ, Pulliam L. Characterization and Biomarker Analyses of Post-COVID-19 Complications and Neurological Manifestations. Cells 2021. PMID: 33668514


  20. Rutishauser RL, Deguit CDT, Hiatt J, Blaeschke F, Roth TL, Wang L, Raymond KA, Starke CE, Mudd JC, Chen W, Smullin C, Matus-Nicodemos R, Hoh R, Krone M, Hecht FM, Pilcher CD, Martin JN, Koup RA, Douek DC, Brenchley JM, Sékaly RP, Pillai SK, Marson A, Deeks SG, McCune JM, Hunt PW. TCF-1 regulates HIV-specific CD8+ T cell expansion capacity. JCI insight 2021. PMID: 33351785


  21. Bunis DG, Bronevetsky Y, Krow-Lucal E, Bhakta NR, Kim CC, Nerella S, Jones N, Mendoza VF, Bryson YJ, Gern JE, Rutishauser RL, Ye CJ, Sirota M, McCune JM, Burt TD. Single-Cell Mapping of Progressive Fetal-to-Adult Transition in Human Naive T Cells. Cell reports 2021. PMID: 33406429


  22. Henrich TJ, Schreiner C, Cameron C, Hogan LE, Richardson B, Rutishauser RL, Deitchman AN, Chu S, Rogers R, Thanh C, Gibson EA, Zarinsefat A, Bakkour S, Aweeka F, Busch MP, Liegler T, Baker C, Milush J, Deeks SG, Stock PG. Everolimus, an mTORC1/2 inhibitor, in ART-suppressed individuals who received solid organ transplantation: A prospective study. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2020. PMID: 32780519


  23. Kerkhoff AD, Rutishauser RL, Miller S, Babik JM. Clinical Utility of Universal Broad-Range PCR Amplicon Sequencing for Pathogen Identification: a retrospective cohort study. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2020. PMID: 31907545


  24. Abdelsamed HA, Zebley CC, Nguyen H, Rutishauser RL, Fan Y, Ghoneim HE, Crawford JC, Alfei F, Alli S, Ribeiro SP, Castellaw AH, McGargill MA, Jin H, Boi SK, Speake C, Serti E, Turka LA, Busch ME, Stone M, Deeks SG, Sekaly RP, Zehn D, James EA, Nepom GT, Youngblood B. Beta cell-specific CD8+ T cells maintain stem cell memory-associated epigenetic programs during type 1 diabetes. Nature immunology 2020. PMID: 32231298


  25. Peluso MJ, Dee L, Campbell D, Taylor J, Hoh R, Rutishauser RL, Sauceda J, Deeks SG, Dubé K. A collaborative, multidisciplinary approach to HIV transmission risk mitigation during analytic treatment interruption. Journal of virus eradication 2020. PMID: 32175090


  26. M. Peluso, P. Burbelo, S. Kumar, S. Munter, R. Hoh, S. Lee, P. Hunt, R. Rutishauser, T. Henrich, S. Deeks. OP 4.2 Characterising ‘exceptional’ control among HIV elite controllers. Journal of virus eradication 2019. PMID:


  27. Deguit CDT, Hough M, Hoh R, Krone M, Pilcher CD, Martin JN, Deeks SG, McCune JM, Hunt PW, Rutishauser RL. Some Aspects of CD8+ T-Cell Exhaustion Are Associated With Altered T-Cell Mitochondrial Features and ROS Content in HIV Infection. Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 2019. PMID: 31513075


  28. Morley D, Lambert JS, Hogan LE, De Gascun C, Redmond N, Rutishauser RL, Thanh C, Gibson EA, Hobbs K, Bakkour S, Busch MP, Farrell J, McGetrick P, Henrich TJ. Rapid development of HIV elite control in a patient with acute infection. BMC infectious diseases 2019. PMID: 31533639


  29. Scully EP, Rutishauser RL, Simoneau CR, Delagrèverie H, Euler Z, Thanh C, Li JZ, Hartig H, Bakkour S, Busch M, Alter G, Marty FM, Wang CC, Deeks SG, Lorch J, Henrich TJ. Inconsistent HIV reservoir dynamics and immune responses following anti-PD-1 therapy in cancer patients with HIV infection. Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology 2018. PMID: 30032204


  30. Henrich TJ, Hatano H, Bacon O, Hogan LE, Rutishauser R, Hill A, Kearney MF, Anderson EM, Buchbinder SP, Cohen SE, Abdel-Mohsen M, Pohlmeyer CW, Fromentin R, Hoh R, Liu AY, McCune JM, Spindler J, Metcalf-Pate K, Hobbs KS, Thanh C, Gibson EA, Kuritzkes DR, Siliciano RF, Price RW, Richman DD, Chomont N, Siliciano JD, Mellors JW, Yukl SA, Blankson JN, Liegler T, Deeks SG. HIV-1 persistence following extremely early initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) during acute HIV-1 infection: An observational study. Volume 14 of Issue 11. PLoS medicine 2017. PMID: 29112956


  31. Vujkovic-Cvijin I, Rutishauser RL, Pao M, Hunt PW, Lynch SV, McCune JM, Somsouk M. Limited engraftment of donor microbiome via one-time fecal microbial transplantation in treated HIV-infected individuals. Volume 8 of Issue 5. Gut microbes 2017. PMID: 28541799


  32. Rutishauser RL, Hartogensis W, Deguit CD, Krone M, Hoh R, Hecht FM, Pilcher CD, Bacchetti P, Deeks SG, Hunt PW, McCune JM. Early and Delayed Antiretroviral Therapy Results in Comparable Reductions in CD8+ T Cell Exhaustion Marker Expression. Volume 33 of Issue 7. AIDS research and human retroviruses 2017. PMID: 28335609


  33. Brondfield MN, Reid MJ, Rutishauser RL, Cope JR, Tang J, Ritter JM, Matanock A, Ali I, Doernberg SB, Hilts-Horeczko A, DeMarco T, Klein L, Babik JM. Disseminated Acanthamoeba infection in a heart transplant recipient treated successfully with a miltefosine-containing regimen: Case report and review of the literature. Volume 19 of Issue 2. Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society 2017. PMID: 28067969


  34. Brown L, Langelier C, Reid MJ, Rutishauser RL, Strnad L. Antimicrobial Resistance: A Call to Action! Volume 64 of Issue 1. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2016. PMID: 27794024


  35. Su PY, Miller S, Rutishauser RL, Babik J. Broad-range PCR for early diagnosis of nosocomial Enterococcus gallinarum meningitis. Volume 48 of Issue 8. Infectious diseases (London, England) 2016. PMID: 27097275


  36. Rutishauser RL, Langelier C, Baxi SM, Hanks D, Chin-Hong P. Think global, act local: chronic dysuria and sterile pyuria in an Eritrean-American woman. Volume 2014. BMJ case reports 2014. PMID: 24518390


  37. Marshall HD, Chandele A, Jung YW, Meng H, Poholek AC, Parish IA, Rutishauser R, Cui W, Kleinstein SH, Craft J, Kaech SM. Differential expression of Ly6C and T-bet distinguish effector and memory Th1 CD4(+) cell properties during viral infection. Volume 35 of Issue 4. Immunity 2011. PMID: 22018471


  38. Jung YW, Rutishauser RL, Joshi NS, Haberman AM, Kaech SM. Differential localization of effector and memory CD8 T cell subsets in lymphoid organs during acute viral infection. Volume 185 of Issue 9. Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 2010. PMID: 20921525


  39. Rutishauser RL, Kaech SM. Generating diversity: transcriptional regulation of effector and memory CD8 T-cell differentiation. Volume 235 of Issue 1. Immunological reviews 2010. PMID: 20536566


  40. Rutishauser RL, Martins GA, Kalachikov S, Chandele A, Parish IA, Meffre E, Jacob J, Calame K, Kaech SM. Transcriptional repressor Blimp-1 promotes CD8(+) T cell terminal differentiation and represses the acquisition of central memory T cell properties. Volume 31 of Issue 2. Immunity 2009. PMID: 19664941


  41. Rutishauser RL, Basu AC, Cromarty SI, Kravitz EA. Long-term consequences of agonistic interactions between socially naive juvenile American lobsters (Homarus americanus). Volume 207 of Issue 3. The Biological bulletin 2004. PMID: 15616347